Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April 2018. It wasn’t his only appearance in DC this decade. reader comments 65 with 40 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories San Francisco city officials are considering condemning the decision to name a local public hospital after Mark Zuckerberg—a move ..
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reader comments 43 with 35 posters participating, including story author Share this story Google for several years has collected app-usage data collected from Android phones to develop and advance its own competing apps, a new report alleges. The project, called Android Lockbox, “collects sensitive Android user data” for use within Google and has been in ..
Getty Images | pagadesign reader comments 157 with 101 posters participating Share this story President Trump’s re-election campaign has accused Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile of “suppression of political speech” over the carriers’ blocking of spam texts sent by the campaign. The fight was described Wednesday in an in-depth article by Business Insider and other reports. “The ..
reader comments 84 with 65 posters participating Share this story San Diego Comic-Con—like just about every large conference, convention, and gathering in 2020—has had to switch to an online-only virtual format this year due to the continuing pandemic. Media companies that usually have a large presence at events like SDCC worked hard to create streaming ..
Valentina Palladino reader comments 29 with 22 posters participating Share this story The EU has demanded that Google make major concessions relating to its $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness-tracking company Fitbit if the deal is to be allowed to proceed imminently, according to people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Since it was announced last ..
Enlarge / A screenshot from Wozniak’s lawsuit shows a typical “Bitcoin giveaway” scam video on YouTube. YouTube / Wozniak et al reader comments 65 with 49 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has sued YouTube over the proliferation of “bitcoin giveaway” scam videos on the YouTube platform. The videos ..
reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story Video transcript still processing but will be available soon. The search for a replacement for the US Navy’s “little crappy ship” is over. On April 30, the US Navy announced that Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the US shipyard subsidiary of Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, had beaten out ..
Enlarge / A cluster of Trump supporters, sporting Q-emblazoned T-shirts and the campaign’s signature red MAGA hats, waiting in line to get into a rally in Tennessee in 2018. reader comments 87 with 46 posters participating Share this story Twitter is removing thousands of accounts and tweets that support the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory from ..
Enlarge / The Department of Justice seal as seen during a press conference in December 2019. reader comments 131 with 77 posters participating Share this story Two state-sponsored hackers in China targeted US businesses in a “sophisticated and prolific threat” for more than 10 years, both for financial gain and to steal trade secrets, the ..
Enlarge / A telephone in a prison. reader comments 95 with 71 posters participating Share this story Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is urging state governments to impose price caps on prison phone calls, three years after Pai helped kill Obama-era FCC rules that limited the price of such calls. Pai yesterday sent a ..
